Tech Mania: Download Firefox 3.6 final version plus 1 more articles

Posted: 23 Jan 2010 06:44 AM PST

After the Release candidate 1 and Release candidate 2 was released few days back a final stable build of Firefox 3.6 is released by Mozilla for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This is considered as a major release and not a incremental release until Firefox 4.0 comes to light as Firefox 3.7 has been dropped from release.As discussed before let me tell you what’s changed.

Some changes to how third party software are allowed to integrate with Firefox in order to prevent crashes.
More than 70 fixes issued from the last beta to improve performance, stability, security and features.
Personas support to change look and feel inbuilt.
Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe.
The ability to run scripts asynchronously to speed up page load times.
Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies.
Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and startup time.
Open, native video can now be displayed full screen(if you are using HTML 5 to view embedded Ogg videos), and supports poster frames.
Support for the WOFF(Web open font format) font format.

Firefox 3.6 will load webpages 20% faster than version 3.5, reducing their overall speed to just under a second. Web designers will receive a CSS gradient and background and an updated file API for web application developers, to work just like desktop apps. Firefox will also add drag and drop support, and even detect your computer orientation.

So new users of Firefox 3.6 why wait go download from the following links below.Check out the video below(Thanks Neowin for video)

Download Firefox 3.6 Final for Windows

Download Firefox 3.6 Final for Linux

Download Firefox 3.6 Final for Mac OSX

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Office 2010 system requirements

Posted: 23 Jan 2010 06:10 AM PST

Alex Dubec from the Office Trustworthy Computing Performance team, posted an update on the Office 2010 system requirements.One of the major problems faced by the Office 2010 team was to keep application requirements as minimal as possible, so users don't need to upgrade hardware.Users who can run Office 2007 will have no problem running Office 2010 on their system but not sure on Office 2003 would do or not.

The minimum requirements for Office 2007 & 2010 is a 500Mhz processor with 256MB of RAM, compared to Office 2003, with 233Mhz and 128MB of RAM. CPU and GPU usage hasn't changed since Office 2007, but Office 2010 does require more disk space than any previous version. The minimum disk space requirement has increase by 0.5GB while other Office 2010 suites have increase by 1.0GB or 1.5GB.

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The reasons for the increase is the added features, the new ribbon interface in all of the applications, the different flavours of Office 2010 and conservatism ” which means Microsoft will round up to the nearest 0.5GB or 1GB. If an application measured 1.63GB, the minimum requirements would be rounded up to 2GB or 1.99GB would be rounded up to 2.5GB.

Microsoft Office 2010 will still run on a DirectX9.0c graphics processor with 64MB of RAM.Although Microsoft recommends a higher system requirement to speed up performance in programs like Excel and PowerPoint, to help render graphs and charts.

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